This Day in History: What Happened Today, February 23, in History?
Not only was I born but…
U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima, 1945
President-elect Lincoln arrives in Washington,1861
Children receive first polio vaccine, 1954
Schindler’s List shown uncut on network television, 1997
Patrick LenzL Where Clear Fits In
What I found, however, is that because of the sheer speed of using Clear it’s perfectly usable as a pure list-making tool to complement the full-blown OmniFocus experience.
Microsoft Office for iPad and the iPad 3 keynote
An interesting theory over at The Loop. Although I’ve come to loath Microsoft Office many people still live and die by the software. It will be a huge win for Microsoft if they release it.
Spotify updates desktop apps, adds gapless playback & crossfading
I love Spotify and these are some nice updates.
Instapaper's most liked articles, as determined by Twitter. | (via Instapaper)
(via Instapaper) crawls Twitter for articles that were ‘Liked’ by Instapaper users, aggregates the data, and shows you the results.
This is one of my new favorite sources for reading material on the web.
The TechBlock: Olloclip vs iPro Lens Review
While I am a fan of the Olloclip, because of its caseless design, this is a very good review of two nice products.
Friday Night Heights
$60M high school football stadium is over the top, even for Texas
I am really into the TV show, Friday Night Lights (via Netflix) and this article seems like it is ripped out of a script.
Suite anticipation: Microsoft Office for iPad expected in coming weeks.
Although I have grown a strong distaste for Office over the past year, I think this will be great for the iOS community. Especially all of us who work with iPad’s in regular offices.
It's Unnatural
Sarah Lacy talking about Google+ on PandoDaily:
We simply don’t need another social network, no matter how great your circles are or how badly Larry Page wants to have one.
Agreed. The problem, which Google really, truly does not seem to understand is that at the end of the day, they’re solving a problem which has already been solved. They may think it hasn’t, but it has.
It’s the same problem Bing faces in search against Google. It’s a fine product, but in order to get people to use it, it has to be far better than the incumbent. Bing isn’t, so it will never beat Google (despite Google’s best efforts to back that thang up). Google+ isn’t, so it will never beat Facebook (or Twitter, for that matter).
But Google is trying to cheat this system. By shoving Google+ in our faces, they think that they can make their product catch on without the need to be above and beyond better than the incumbent.
I think we’ll see that this approach still won’t work. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter work because they evolved based on how users were naturally using them. Google+ is trying to make the users evolve to fit into the network they created. It’s unnatural.
Source: parislemon
PeteSearch: Why Facebook's data will change our world
Everyone is on Facebook. I know, you’re not, but most organizations can treat you like someone without a phone or TV twenty years ago. The medium is so prevalent, if you’re not on it’s commercially viable to ignore you. This broad coverage also makes it possible to answer questions with the data that are impossible with other sources.
Seth's Blog: Too far from the center?
The center has nothing to do with geography any longer. The center is a state of mind.
Truckers, Look For A New Job…
There has been much hype over these self-driving cars over the last year or so. It was all kicked off by Google’s success in the space, which prompted many to ask, “Is it safe?”
Nevada set out to answer that question and the answer is yes. They have been testing these cars for a while and have passed a provision allowing them on the streets legally.
Although typical drivers and consumers are likely not going to see self-driving cars pedaled to them by their local dealer anytime soon, there are many immediate commercial uses. Think delivery vans and big rigs. Many truck drivers are paid for driving days, back to back, to carry cargo across the United States and back. Imagine if cargo could drive not only 14 hours a day, with a 30-minute break every 5 hours, but 24 hours a day, breaking only for gas. Imagine if cargo transporters could employ only a gas tank filler or pay a certain surcharge for a gas station employee to fill up each massive tank. That’s where we heading, and fast. It’s safer for the drivers and for the other vehicles that share the roads with trucks.
This is yet another example of technology displacing manual labor workers. The US can no longer rely on a brute work force for jobs. We need better programs and more benefits for technical trades and computer science.
It will likely take several years to happen, but this is an industry that will be disrupted. I think at the end of the day the dividends will pay off for the consumer, goods will move faster and cheaper across the country.
Source: mckaythomas
